Help Crack The Elementary School Education Crisis

Recently we received a letter from an inner city school to put 30 computers into the school to create a lab. In this school of the 177 or so kids in the third grade can read, write or do math proficiently In Philadelphia according to greatschools.org

This is the case for the vast majority of elementary schools in Philadelphia. Yet no one has declared a crisis. Each superintendent comes up with plans to improve, the schools, they move personal around; spend millions of dollars on programs that do not work. 

Brillkids a company in China has given us over $750,000 worth of learning software that any baby, toddler, kid any age can learn anything they want in just a few minutes. We have distributed over 1,700 copies over the past few years with every computer we distribute.

My son by the time he was one could read over 1,000 words, count to 100 in English and Spanish and identify hundreds of bits of intelligence like president, primates polygons and more..

By the time he was 2 1/2 he could turn a computer on use a keyboard and play reader rabbit, math rabbit language express and every educational game we could find.

Despite my not being a college graduate, his mother passing away when he was 10 he graduated 2 nd in his class from high school at 17. He was one of the first 400 kids accepted early to Georgetown where he majored in English and taught himself journalism. He has been gainfully employed since graduating college using his amazing skills.

The very first computer we distributed helped a kid in one of the worst drug neighborhoods also graduate college.

I HAVE NO DOUBT ONCE WE RAISE THE REMAINING $2000 THESE COMPUTERS WILL HELP THE KIDS IN THIS SCHOOL TRANSFORM THEIR ACADEMIC AND ECONOMIC ACHIEVMENT. 

Thanks for your support

Your contribution will make a dramatic difference and begin to turn the tide in Philadelphia.

 It is a fact ...Low literacy impacts every aspect of a child’s life, their schools and communities.

Close to 1/4 of all children in our country live in poverty, hundreds of thousands more live on the brink.

McCormick Foundation analysis of census data.

By the age of 3 many children in low income families have not heard enough words to be prepared for success in school. It is reported by many researchers that they start school with a 75% vocabulary deficit and have heard 30 million fewer words than children from higher income families. 

Of Children struggling to learn to read in 1st grade, nearly 90% will be poor readers in the 4th grade. In Philadelphia year after year, Superintendent after Superintendent over 60% of children in the 3rd grade can not read, write or do math proficiently.

Children who are not reading proficiently at grade level by 3rd grade are four time more likely to drop out of school.

It does not have to happen. We have demonstrated over the past 20 year that we have the ability if we have the will to distribute low cost refurbished computers to parents loaded with software donated with www.brillkids.com. This software we load on every computer gives parents both the tools, training, and technology thay can use in a short period of time with lots of fun learn anything they want to learn at their own pace and interest. 

That is the power of technology.

4 kids that immigrated to the US from Vietnam where their father spent a few years in jail came to TeamChildren and began volunteering. They all got through high school with computers from TeamChildren. All four graduated from college and are now gainfully employed.

One of our teen volunteers who had Aspergres through a combination of Rolfing by Robert Toporek ( www.rolifingtoporek.com)

the Landmark Forum www.landmarkworldwide.com, and the opportunity to learn about technology in our tech center is now one of the best tech students at  Widner University.

We are making a difference for kids

With your support we will fully fund and staff our efforts

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